A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of any application running on it compared with a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive uses multiple interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard-disk drive works by using spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to move, meaning the speed of an HDD is fixed. As the prices of the two types of drives also differ, a lot of PCs and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard disk for file storage, in this way balancing cost and efficiency. A hosting provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files that are used on a regular basis will be held on such a drive for reaching improved loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting
Our innovative cloud website hosting platform uses exclusively SSD drives, so if you obtain any of our cloud website hosting solutions, you will take full advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard disks, so your files, databases and e-mail messages will all load from high-speed SSDs. For even improved performance, we use caching SSDs. Multiple drives are used by our system for every file that's accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed in order to make sure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the primary drives is decreased, so we can provide exceptional performance for all types of sites irrespective of how many times they're accessed and avoid a situation where some Internet sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the primary drives and decreases the risk of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you want speed and outstanding performance for your sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts will be a very suitable solution because they are made on a cloud platform that employs SSDs for each aspect of the service - e-mails, databases and files. This way, each and every site that you host on our end will load fast. Similar to other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the top-notch performance all the time and irrespective of the nature of your websites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all of the frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both reduces the load and ensures the optimal performance of all websites which load from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased considering that there will be a lot less reading and writing processes on them.